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Issue Details

Issue #11
Published October 1952
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details - "O'Malley's Friend!"

Genre horror
Pencils Bill Everett (signed)
Inks Bill Everett (signed)
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2

7 page story "The Devil and Donald Webster"

Synopsis A man makes a deal with Satan to murder his shrew wife, but Satan frames him for the crime and he is sentenced to the electric chair. At least, he thinks, he is free from his wife. When he arrives in Hell, he finds his wife waiting for him.
Genre Horror
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2

2 page text story "Ocean Monster"

Letters typeset
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2 (2009)

5 page story "Walking Ghost"

Synopsis A debunker for a radio program enters a house that is supposed to be haunted but he tells his audience that there is nothing there. When he leaves the mansion, his sound crew run away in fear because he has unknowingly been reduced to a walking skeleton.
Genre Horror
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Bill Walton
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2

5 page story "Darkness"

Synopsis An escaped convict is swallowed by a whale after the ship he was stowed away on is struck by a mine and sinks.
Genre Suspense
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Reprinted In Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2

6 page story "O'Malley's Friend"

Synopsis O'Malley tricks the Devil into giving him wealth while he is alive, but the Devil is resentful, and so after O'Malley dies the Devil won't allow him to enter Hell. St. Peter refuses to allow him into Heaven because he lived a wealthy and sinful life, so he has nothing to do but wander around telling his story in bars.
Genre Horror
Pencils Gene Colan (signed)
Inks Gene Colan
Reprinted in Beware (Marvel, 1973 series) #2 (May 1973); in Incroyable Hulk, L' (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #39; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Strange Tales (Marvel, 2007 series) #2